The Sun. — London, England, 1864-11-01 00:00:00

MARKET KO NEI AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, Two o'CLocK. As usual on the Ist November, the transfer books at the Bank being shut, the Stock Exchange is closed. There is a moderate demand for discount accom modation to-day ; the supply of money is very large, and brokers are more inclined to negotiate best bills of three months' date, at 81 per cent. About £27,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday, but 20,000 sovereigns were withdrawn for the West Indies. The Magdalena from the Brazils has arrived at Lisbon en route to this country with £43,059. The bar silver by the last West India packet has been sold at ss, 6id. per ounce for Amsterdam, showing a rise of 4-1. The directors of the International Land Credit Company have made a call of £2 per share, payable at the London and Westminster Bank, or at the Barque de Crelit Foncier et Industriel, Brussels, on Monday, Nov. 28. The appointment of Mr Turquand as liquidator of the Leeds Banking Company (which was made provisionally by the Vice• Chancellor during the vacation) has been confirmed by the Court. The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap )ointed Friday, Nov. 4, a special settling day in he shares of the following companies :—Metropo. itan Railway New Shares to be marked ; Pant. ,hire Oil and Cannel Company, for transactions )nly entered into on and after the 7th August, not o be marked at present ; the Worcester Engine Works, for transactions entered into on and after he 11th June, not to be marked ; and Holcomb and )0., sack contractors, for transactions entered into In and after the 16th July, no quotation asked for. During the last few days there has been rather ess activity exhibited in the Foreign and Colonial 'roduce Markets. Sugars, however, have main-. ained former rates, while a fair business has been one in coffee at fuli prices. Tea has remained in ioderate request at steady prices, while Cocoa, rice, ,nd fruit has in same instances sold at slightly re laced rates. Tallow has been in more request for oth present and forward delivery, at fully previous ,uotations. BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. YESTERDAY. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. per Cent. Consols Do Account, Nov. 12.... per Cent. Reduced ........ 'ow 3 per Cent. 87j low 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891 Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 .nnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, ex pi re sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — 'chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4& 31 per Cent. 4M 3 arch dis June. Do £5OO Do £lOO and £2OO ank England Stk, 51 per Ct. Do Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Ldia Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874..... Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 — Do Certificates Do Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Do 4} pei C en t. Do Eufaced Paper, 4 per Cent Do 5 per C en t., J an. 1872 . .... -- Do 51 per Cent., May, 1879 .. —Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 .......... 971 Do Bonds tl,OO .................... 8 6 il dis Do under £l,OOO .................... • FOREIGN FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. astrian Bonds, 5 per Cent............ razilian 5 per Cent Do 4} per Cont., 1852-58-60 ...... .. Do ;1863 B2l Lienos 'Ayres 6 per, Cent Do Account.... - lilian 6 per Cent. Do 41 per Cent )loinbian 6 per Cent Liba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Cent, 1864 mish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do 6 per Cent, 1864 piado r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do, Provisonal Land Warrant.. cl7Ptian 7 por Cent 951 6 Do, Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds reek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Do Account .. .......... Do Account -- uatemala 5 per Cent. Do 1839 and 1859 titian 5 per Cent.(Mareininana Railway) 701 exican 3 per Cent Do Account 1)0 1864 25 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Ditto Scrip, £33 paid.... — dis - 1110 French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis x d oorish Imperial 5 per Cent ew Granada - Do 2 per Cent. Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) — Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1864 — Do do Aug., 1866 --- ruvian 41 per Cent Do 3 per Cent. (Crribarren)... — Do 41 per Cent., 1862 .. 1 )o Account )rtuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account — Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7,'9, '6O, 62,'3 461 Do Account46l ussian 5 per Cent 1822, £ St., Do 41 per Cent., 1850 — Do 1860 — Do 3 per Cent 1859 5 I Do 6 per C on t, 186 2 B7i 8 Do Anglo-Dutch . ......... Do Scrip, £55 pa id Do Account .-- )anish 3 per Cent Do Account 4 7 Do New Deferred Do Passi ve — Do Account . 31 a i i )anish Cert. of C oup not funded Do Accou n t ............ .. wedish, 4 per Cent .................. Do Scrip, £6O paid .................. -- pm urkish 6 per Cent. 1851 ........ 89 Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Accou n t 69. t Do,£loo Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account Do £lOO B on d s 72 h Do 1863 Do Guaratteed, 4 p er Cent..... .. Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid .... — enezuela 3 per Cen.t. Do Acco unt Do 6 per Cent., 1862 ................ Do Account.... Do 6 per Cent., 1864 ........... Dividends on the above payable in London ustrian, 5 per Cent., E x . 10 Florins. a lgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f... etch 2} per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — Do 4 per Cent. Certificates rench llentes, 2 per Cent. — TWO 0 O'CLOCK, onsols, Mon©y B9l 1 Do A.coount .... 891 LORD ELMO ON THE RELATIONS OF VOLUNTEER IFFICERS AND PRIVATES. —Lord Eleho has ad reseed the following letter to the editor of the .71adding ,nshire Courier :—" Amisfield, Oct. 25.—Sir,—In the ladclington Courier of Friday last reference is made to the Let of . your having been precluded from dining at the Mears' mess of the East-Lothian Rifle Volunteers, on the evasion of the inspection of the regiment, in consequence of our having appeared there in the uniform cf a private f the corps, Having myself had the honour Cf dining t the mess on the occasion referred to, and having at be time heard of the circumstance of your exclusion, I egretted then, as I regret now, that the rules of the ill' 8: mess exclude privates of the corps in uniform. lly of ject , howeNer, in now writing is not to find fault with uks laid down by gentlemen by whom I have been opiniontheta I hold hat ivolunteer eervic e an officers' mess is a mistake. /,,ppity, all social grades, from dukes to mechanics and gricultural labourers, are to be found in our ranks, but a olunteer's position in the force does not depend on his posi ion in society. There are men serving in the ranks who re tation socially the equals, the officers in many c ases even th e superiors, in under whom they serve. when on duty, the strictest discipline is maintained by . olunteers, and privates, no matter what their social posi ion may be, always pay ready obedience to those placed in uthortty over them. But when cff duty, wh en mixing oeially together, military distinctions should be at an e n d ; be uniform o f t h e pr i vate should not be barred where that f the o ffi cer i s free. Such at least, I venture to hink. hould be the ru l e o f the service so far as regards our-sotal ntercourse, and such generally I believe it to be. The ttlast Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry have a mess, at which Ilex I have been hospitably entertained; but, if I am not Mistaken, it is not an officers' mess.' And in the interests )f the East Lothian Rifle Volunteers, whose well-being 1 have much at hcart, I would gladly see every member of he corps who chooses to pay for his dinner free to dine at 'he regimental rgess,—l em , ELCUO," SHARE MARKETS, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 3harel Railways. "" Closing Business Price. done. Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall A.. gets no div Do A 1 Do. B till tip c.p an. has aid to B. Dublin & been Belf p ast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Westerri.! Great Eastern, Ord. stk' Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern... Do A stock Do B do cit. S. an 1 W. of irebm , ll Great Western,Original Do Str Val gua. stoexi Do. South Wales Do. West Mid. -Oxiord Do Newport, Do Hereford' Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So%th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Haryport and Carlisle. Dot shares... Metropolitan Midland Do Birming. & Derby liid Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 8 shares Mid Kent North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwiok Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle Do. Stock. & Darling Do do 1855-53 Do do iSit...Bl North London Do New Do New, 1864. North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Soottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stook Do Scot. Mid. stook Shrews, and Welohpooi Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern Staines,Wok.,andWok raft Vale.. Do C. Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Ilar.&11 ; MK st st st 50 20 10 10 83 65 127 f 1281 51 6i 31 33 16 17 02 94 107 109 451 461 85 127 k Si 6j 7j 131 134 149 150 129 t3l 81 01 75} 7 45} ; I a 148 9 $ 54 L 5 39 42 90 101 114} 1141 66 67 103 ‘O5 37 39 1151 116 95 #7 65 66 76/ 6 7 Oi / 55 i 41 40 1121 113 133 133 103 105' 1151 161 52i 63i 21, iso 103 it 9 11 17 161 17 I 97 C6i 67i 96i 87i 86 37 loi 7i 8* 118 123 1 I.p 764 774 10i 111 13} 138 56 58 86 t 8 831 84 8 9 155 160 ai 44 1, 98 100 32 34 1121 I 13 i 134 a 5 105 lj 1091 9 10 67, 97} 8 361 84151 i BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways t.tlantio & St Lawreno4 tom.,Baroda&.Cent In Ge. 5 per cent Do. F. .Nhare5........«. sudalo and LaKeliurot) Do. Preference .suffalo,Brant,&Godricl $ p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 187. Do. do. July 1, 187. )o. do. June 1, 187 lcutta./t S. Eastn. (Lin 'apeTown & Dock Seri • Demerara 7 p.o. per. pf .castn. Bengal gu. 6 p. h:ast Indian. en. 5 p. c Do. do. J . Ext.. grand Trunk of Canal Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent Do. Ist fret. Bond Do. do. deterred...— Do. 2d Pref. Bonds 1 Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred-- Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deferred ' 3l LlndiaPenin.gua.sp.e Do. Gus. 5 per cen' Do. New gua. 5 p. a— it. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent Do. 41 per cent Do It. W. of Canada Share Do. New ...... no. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. 'Jo. 54 p. o. do. '77-& Indian Branch Limited iladrie guar., 5 p. o. Do. 11 p. o. Extensiot Do. 46 Do. Fifth Extension. 'lelb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds 1 1 11 db. & Hobson's Bay. Yowßrunswiok Canth Class A and B. I .ltl.C'daB pc Ist i bd' )o. Delhi .)o. do •• • a 00. Punjaub ; c Jo.lnduu. St. Flog) 4. .LUNIA.L UU V EltP British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec, 31, 1872.... 1883. iTA.Unr.fi .ItJ 1877-88 ........ Do. 6 p. o. Feb. & Aug Do. 6 p. c. Mar. & Sepl Do. E p. o. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stock ape G. Hope, 6p Do.Ap & Oct. 188(. Do. 18 )o. Jan. & July. 1891. vt . :eylon, Nov.lstii, 6 p 1878, do. 4fturittus 6 p.cent.lB73 Do. 1878 Do. 1882 natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 4.11.G0v. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 4. S.W. G ov. 5p 3, 1 8 0 Du. 5 p. c.,1671 to Lea. Do. do. ,;888 dtupwd4 tiew Zealand 6 p cent Vora Scotia Gov. 6 p. c steriing, 1875........ /ucensland Gcv. 6 p. c. ~Aus GOV. 6 p.c.lf 68- Do. 1 7e &ul ward V to. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja...11 ul) Do. lo 6 p.c. A0.&00t.. all 100 (100 I 100 < 2 'IG 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Paid, Closing Price. AlEi\ 54 55 1011 iG24 }dig }p 4s 5 7 8 96 OS 94 96 93 116 80 85 78 81 104 106 'O4 1013 1( 5 107 107 100 102 105 I( 9 112 102 105 101 107 06 103 10 2 IC4 93 96 97 gg 95 97 g 4 96 100 104 95 103 8) 91 102 103 102 1(3 19 20 83 92 67 70 59 61 63 65 55 57 51 53 46 50 28 30 26 '<B 102 103 pr t p pr tp 99 100 9 94 14 11, 90 92 77 81 d 10 1 0 101 93 95 88 90 8 0 S 6 80 83 1001 1001 100 101 Id ip 10) 101 97 101 191 291 1021 i 3 101 i 1001 1 '1 8E1) U 1111:1Eb. 97} 97 83 3 BRITISH MINES. "snbrian Contiol. Gold Chiverton ,i,nora Amalgamated. )evon G.Cone.(TaviBt. Drakewa1'5............ ...nst itasrett(lllogan).: Caradon ...... :net Carn _ East Grenville East Lovell • • • Illusselaavistk. ;amASt.Aubyn(CT'wen Great Laxey, treat South To_igue... Wheal Vor (lielstoh lend's-Foot ...... I ingston Downs Margaret (tiny Lelani 1 arke Valley.. iynciv Iron Ore (Lim, ........ iew &tun .. orth Downs North Roskear.. Basset ( :orth Wheal Crotty . Prosper rov zoence ( U nv Leint. )outh Caradon(kCleet i.Wheal h'ran. (Illogail Stray Park Cin Crott West Basset (Illogan).. •W Cr radon (Lisicearo West Chiver:on Nest Boton •Whea.l Basset (Mogan .wheal Buller (Redruth, Wheal Lndeott •W heal AlaryAnn (:den Wheal 3eton Vilest Trelawney (Lis. Wheal Union i i 5 9 0 31 680 600 2.1.0. 1.14. r 3.4.0 2.7.0. 2.13.6. n 13, 7 8. • . 3 214 3 2£q ?.8 0 7.1. to 6.7 48.15. t 30.17., 1 524 574 22) 23) 64 7 74 if 104 214 4f 4f 6 15i 10 . 1 , 14 2 35 36 5f 64 £7 39 4 94 7 9 4 44 I 24 :.6 CO 70 17 19 2 21 3t 36 33 520 540 33 36 18 20 15 16 8 9 5 6 55 60 200 210 90 93 12 14 1 11 15 17 200 205 19 21 14 PREFERENCE 811,1L1tE8. Great Eastern, E. C., Norfolk 5 per cent. Ext., Great \ orthern, 4) per cent., rect. at 10 per cent Ditto, 5 per cent., redeemable at 5 per cent., Great Western Orig. 4} per cent pf., 97 t.Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford 2d guaranteed stook, 115 PREFEItENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 5 per oent. pf., Ditto, new per cent pf., 9} Great Northern, 5 per cent., irred. 108 London, Brighton, &c., per cent.,' 1858. 18 London, Chatham, &0., Metrop. Ext., B 6 per cent., 93i '46, 101 • pm., - ,1051 0 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. East Lin - oln, gua. 6 per cent., 1325 Northern and Eastern 5 per cent., 53 FOREI GZI RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, 19; 20 Great Luxembourg, 11 101 11} San Paulo (lira.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 18i South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 20; BANKS. Alliance (Jim.), HI d 4 1 1 54 41 Ditto, new, issued at 20 pin., 18/ 19 Anglo Austrian, Australasia, 69: British and Californian, lim., 41 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 324 2 City, 110 4 114 Consolidated Bank, lim., 10 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 191 20 European Bank, lim., 91 Imperial Bank (lim.), 31 imperial Ottoman, 151 4 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 43 London Bink of Mexico and S. America, Um., 41 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 231 London and County, 71 Z London Joint Stock, Ditto, new, 114 London and 11 estminater, 041 Mercantile and Exchange. lim., 9 National Provincial:of' England, Ditto, new, 42 Ditto, ditto. 38} New South Wales, 42 11 Oriental Bank Corporation, 531 South Australia, 33 MISCELLANEOUS. City of London Real Property, lim., i It City Offices, lim., 11 2 Ebbw Vale, 4i:a Egyptian Corn. and Trading, Um., 43 Financial Corporation, Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Um., 61 Hudson's Bay, 1.62, 16 Imperi.l Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., I nternational Financial society, Um., Joint Stock Discount, Um., n London Financial Association, Btu., 22 London General Omnibus Company, 2i National Discount Company, Urn., In a 14 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, t 3 Rhymney Iron, 27i Royal Mail Steam, 86i 5 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lim., Universal Alariue, Insurance, lliu. , .51 0 5t Business don( 55 102 1i 2 96 93 10) 102 [O6 108 ;04i 105 i 94; 5 I THE SUN, _LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1864. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Mr Commissioner Holroyd resumed his sittings after the vacation, but was occupied during the morning in hearing applications in the private room. The list was very light. Mr Registrar Winslow also sat as commissioner, but was occupied the whole of the morning at a private examina tion. RE COLONEL WA.1.1011. This case will be heard on Thursday, not Wednesday; as before stated. Mr Commissioner Goulburn will not sit till Thursday. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr Commissioner Kerr.) CAN A WOMAN MARRY lIER FIRST HUSBAND'S HALF. BROTHER ?-BUDDEN V. ENGLISH. In this case plaintiff sued a Mrs Eliz ►beth English for rent, and when the case was called on the defendant stopped into the box. His Honour—How do you make out this case, plaintiff? Plaintiff—She occupied rooms in my house, and has not paid the whole rent. Defendant—l am a married woman. Plaintiff—No, she is not, She has married two brothers, and therefore the second marriage is void. His Honour—That would be so, Mrs English. You see that, by the English law, you are forbidden to marry ycur first husband's brother. Defendant—l was lawfully and regularly married to him, Plaintiff—Were you married to him abroad ? Defendant—Oh, dear no. We were married in Eng. Land. Plaint ff—Then your marriage is not recognised here. - - - - Defendant—My second husband was not exactly my first husband's brother, but more Lk° a brother in-law. (Laughter.) His Honour—Well, perhaps there might not be so much objection to that. Plaintiff—But the husbands were not brothers-in-law. As I am informed, they were of the same name and brothers. His Honour—Well, let us see. Now, Mrs English, what was the names of your first husband ? Defendant—Robert Hall English, and he died in 1850. His Honour—And what was the name of the second husband ? Defendant—james English. I married him in June, 1863, His Honour—Well, were they brothers ? Defendant—No, they were like brothers-in-law. His Honour—How was that ? .._ _ Defendant —Old Mr English, the father, was twice mar ried, and his first wife bore him my first husband, his second wife my second husband. This answer caused no little surprise, calculation, and argument in court. His Honour—Then you see, Mrs English, that you have married two half-brothers, Defendant--Yes, I think that is it. His Honour (considering)—Well, I do not know, no, I do not think it will do, Mrs English ; but it really is a very nice question in common law. The question will be, " Cau a woman marry her husband's half-brother P" In my opinion it is prohibited. It seems very hard, Mrs English, but I am afraid you cannot set up your marriage as a defence to the action. Defendant—l had no idea that the marriage was not a good one. A young man here stepped forward, and said he was the son of the old gentleman, known as the second husband. He complained of the manner in which the plaintiff had gone on with the case, and with some little warmth of temper, said that the old gentleman had never been seen; and yet plaintiff had the blushing effrontery to come for ward and say he had promised to pay the money. His Honour—So far as the case has gone I have nothing to do with the old gentleman at all ; the only matter for me to consider is whether defendant is married, and if such marriage is a good one. I do not think that in law a woman can marry her first husband's halt brother, an so lam bound to decide that defendant cannot plead her marriage. However, as it does seem to be a hard case upon Mrs Eng lish, who might have fancied it was a good marriage, I will let the case stand over so that the parties may come to some arrangement about the payment. Verdict for the plaintiff. THE SHERIFFS OF LONDON AND MIDDLESEX.— The ancient ceremony of cutting faggots, chopping sticks, with a bill-hook and chopper, and counting horseshoes and nails, as suit and service to the Crown for the right and pri vilege of the City of London to choose the Sheriffs of London and Isliddleeex, took place yesterday morning before Mr W. H. Walton, the Queen's Remembrancer and Sailor Master of the Court of Exchequer, at the Queen's Remem brancer's-office, Chancery-lane, with all the usual cere monies, Until within the last three or four years the ceremony used to be carried out with all due civic pomp and grandeur on the occasion of the Sheriffs of London and Sheriff of Middlesex proceeding in State to Westmin• ster-hall on the 30th of October, when they were pre sented in due form by the Recorder to the then Cursitor Baron, the late Right Hon. Mr Bankes, in the Court of Exchequer, for the approval of the Crown. On those occa kions the court was always crowded. Some years ago, when great reforms in law took place, and a number of patent offices were abolished, the Cursitor Baron was made to cease on the death of Mr Bankes. When that event took place the duty fell on the Barons of the Exchequer, but that being found most inconvenient a short Aot of Parliament was passed to do away with the cere mony of presentation, but reserving all the other ancient ceremonies, appointing the barons or their chief officer, the Queen's Remembrancer, to see the ceremony performed. Accordingly, yesterday morning the City solicitor, as repre senting the corporation, Mr. Davison, the senior under sheriff, as representing the Sheriff of Middlesex, and Mr J. K. Potter, the Secondary, as representing the Sheriffs of London, attended at Queen's Remembrsncer's-office, when the usher of the court made the usual proclamations, and the ceremony of cutting faggots and chopping sticks was performed as suit and service for a piece of land called the Moor, in Salop, and containing six horseshoes and 61 nails as suit and service for a place called the Forge, in the parish of St. Clement Dane. The usual warrants of attor ney to acoount having been filed and recorded, the cere mony terminated. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 31.—FEDERAL CRUISERS AND BLOCKADE RUNNERS.—The Bat steamer, from this port, with machinery, was captured off Wilmington October 10 by the Federal steamer Moßtgomeiy ; one of the crew was wounded and afterwards died. She arrived at Boston in oharge of a priz) crew on the 17th. A blockade-running paddle steamer, withsmoke stacks, two masts, was sunk by the blockading vessels off Charleston on the sth of October, while trying to run in by the inner channel, Her mast and smoke stacks were visible, but her hull was entirely submerged. Sho was sunk at a point off Long Island out of reach of the Cmfcderate batteries, and it was probable that she might be raised and portions of her cargo saved. The Confederate steamer Florida was reported off Salt Key Banks steering towards Havannah. MR E. H. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN, M.P., AND lIIS CONSTITUENTS.—Mr E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P., addressed a meeting of his constituents, in accordance with an annual custom, at Deal, on Friday evening. The meeting took place in the Town Hall, which was well filled with electors, and the chair was occupied by Mr George Hughca. The hon gentleman spoke at some length on the various topics of the day; and at the close of his address a vote of renewed confidence in him was passed, OEN ERAL TOD LEB EN.—General Todleben and other officers in the Russian service visited Woolwich yes terday morning, and were received at the dockyard by Com modore Superintendent Hugh Dunlop, C.B. At 11 o'clock the party embarked on board the Admiralty steam-vessel Vivid, Staff-Commander Allen, which proceeded down the river to Long-reach, passing the immense works now in progress for the southern metropolitan sewage outfall, and the scene of the recent gunpowder explosion at Erich. The Vivid returned to Woolwich at 12 o'clock, an intended voyage to Shoeburyness, for the purpose of witnessing gun nery experiments, being, it is stated, postponed. After landing at the jetty the general and party, accompanied by Major-General Warde, C.B , paid a second visit to the Royal Arsenal, and returned to London about 2 o'clock. DETENTION OF THE ROYAL TRAIN.—About 2 o'clock a,m. on Saturday a goods train from War rington, while travelling on the up line near to Minshuli Vernon, was thrown off the rails by a valuable horse stray ing on the line. The animal had been grazing in a field ; and our informant, who visited the place, says that a gate, regularly fastened with a chain round it, had been lifted oft its hinges and thrown into the field. It would have been a work of great difficulty to have thrown it on the line. The animal had passed through the gate. The Royal train, containing her Majesty, was detained nearly an hour in consequence. The line was blocked several hours, two or three carriages having been pitched clean over. This matte' calls for strict inquiry, as it must have been no easy matter to raise the gate off its hinges,—lllanchestier Courier. TRAGIC OCCURRENCE AT INEYmorni.—Earl) yesterday morning the inmates of the residence of Captain Dow, of Rodwell, Weymouth, were startled by the cries of " Murder " proceeding from the upper part of the rear of the house. Up-n hastening to one of the servant's rooms it was discovered she was greatly excited, and said that a man had just escaped from the window who had pounced upon her whilst asleep and nearly strangled her . Upon search being made, a ladder, which had been removed from a house undergoing repair a short distance off, was found raised against the bedroom window, and it was no doubt by this means that the man gained access to the room, Marks of violence were found on the neck of the girl, and the house was in a state of a'arm till daybreak. soon after which it la as discovered that the man who hac entered the house was lying dead at the bottom of one of the Weymouth and Portland Railway cuttings near the back cf the house. He was a marine named Henry Stokes, belonging to her Majesty's ship Black Prince, and in hie flight had evidently fallen down the cutting, which is hewn out of stone, and was killed. Footmarks which correspono with deceased's boots wore visible from the ladder to th, cutting. An inquest was held, when a verdict in accord ance with he facts was recorded. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This day. MANSION-HOUSE. EXTENSIVE ERAUD.—Dunem Maclean Wright, a re spectably dressed man, was placed at the bar, before Mr Alderman Stone, charged with endeavouring to obtain, by false representations and fraudulent pretences, a quantity of wine, and also with forging and uttering account bills of exchange to the amount of £2,500. Mr Sleigh, who attended on the part of the prosecution, said the prisoner was charged with one 1)e Witt, who has been under remand, with conspiring to obtain a large quan tity of wines from Messrs Garcia, Rubet, and Co., by false pretences, and whose name, for obvious reasons, he had not before mentioned in connection with the charge, was apprehended by Sergeant Spittal, who, after some exertion, had traced him from Liverpool to London. Ho should not rouble the alderman with much evidence, but merely call Spittal who, when apprehending the prisoner, told him the charge, when he replied that he intended to plead guilty, and that ho should do all in his power to obtain a complete restitution of the property. He should then ask that the prisoner be remanded until to-morrow, when he could brought up in company and be examined with De Witt. Sergeant Spittal said he traced the prisoner from Liver pool to London, and last night he apprehended him in the neighbourhood of Bayswater. When he told him the charge against him, he said he should plead guilty, and gave every facility towards recovering the property. Alderman Stone at once remanded the prisoner until to morrow. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. COMMITTAL WITHOUT A FINE- FOR AN UNPROVOKED ASSAULT.—Marie Debil!e, a notorious French prostitute, who has several times figured at this court, sometimes as complainant and sometimes as defendant, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with committing the following assault upon Melchior Blaise, a tanner, residing in Earl's-court, Cranbourn-street, Leicester-square. The complainant said he was passing down Regent-street last night on his way home, and when at the corner of Air street he saw a female either intoxicated or in a fit, Ho and a constable tried to get her into a cab that she might be taken home, and while doing so a person came up and asked what was the matter. He replied in French, " Only a drun'ien prostitute that seems to want to be locked up." At this time there were several French women in the road, and prisoner said he was a very bad man, and made a vile imputation against him, He walked away, and when he got about half way down the Quadrant the prisoner, who had followed him, gave him a violent blow in the face, and he believed she had something in her hand at the time, as his face was cut, and another woman seized his stick which ha walked with, being a little paralysed. The prisoner then run away, but he followed her as well as he could and gave her into custody. In answer to Mr Tyrwhitt, the complainant said that the prisoner knew who he was, because he was once a witness against her bully for stealing a watch, when he got four years' imprisonment. Thomas Goddard, 302 A, said that observing the prisoner running, and thinking she had committed a robbery, he pursued her, and after a smart run naught her. The com plainant then came up with his face bleeding, and stated that the prisoner had assaulted him, and he then took tDe prisoner into custody. The prisoner said she thought it was the complainant running after her and not the constable, and that was why she ran. Mr Tyrwhitt said the prisoner was well known as one of the worst women in the metropolis, and that she well knew what she had imputed to tho complainant. He should com mit her for a month with hard labour. The prisoner is one of a number of foreign prostitutes who nightly frequent Regent-street, and whose conduct, not withstanding the exertions of the police, is much com plained of. WESTMINSTER. DESPERATE ATTACK UPON A FOREIGNER.—Martin Shelby, a rough boy, was charged with violently assaulting and wounding a poor Spaniard named Francesco Reach. The prosecutor was dreadfully disfigured in the face, and he wore a large bandage round his head, which was severely wounded. He gave his evidence through the medium of an interpreter. Prosecutor's statement was to the following effect :—On the night before last he was at the Harp of Erin beer-shop in the Broadway, Westminster, when he was suddenly at tacked by the prisoner and some others with him. Prosecu tor was at supper at the time, and some mistake arose about the beer he was drinking, and then the prisoner struck him a violent blow on the head with a pair of tongs, and he was at the same time attacked by the companions of the pri soner, one of whom cut his eye open with a quart pot. Mr. Selfe—How many blows were you struck? Prosecutor's reply was—l can't say how many, because I lost my senses. Prisoner said that the Spaniard was excited, and seized him, at the same time brandishing a knife, a foot long, and that that was how the disturbance began. The prosecutor was questioned and positively denied the assertions of the prisoner. Ho declared as before that he was quietly eating his supper when they fell upon him. A police-constable, who understands Spanish, said that he was conversing with the prosecutor a few minutes before the occurrence in question, at the Harp of Erin. He was at the time perfectly sober and quiet. Witness had known him a long while, and he was a very harmless well-con ducted man. Mr Selfe adjourned the further hoaring of the case for the attendance of some witnesses who were absent. THAMES, A NOISY FAltt.—SiNouLalt CASE.—Mrs Clithoroe, who descriLed herself as a "respectable married woman," was brought before Mr Partridge, charged with being drunk and disorderly, and refusing to pay a cab fare. George Brown, a cab driver, stated that a little before 6 last night he was hired by the prisoner opposite the George publichouse in the Commercial-road, and ordered to drive her to No. 6, Calvert-street, Mile-end-road. Soon after she got into the cab, and while he was driving through Stepney, she began shouting, swearing, and hallooing. He should not have said much about that if she had not called him a vagabond, a thief, and a villain. Re begged of her to be quiet, but she would not, and a mob collected. He stopped the cab, and she gave utterance to another volley of abuse. He then gave her into custody. John Mackay, 414 liti, said he took the prisoner into custody. She called him a thief and a blackguard, and used very foul language. The prisoner —I am a respectable married woman. Inspector Griffin, but not respect a bl e. IZ division—She is a married woman, Prisoner—T am respectable. Inspector Griffi n , —Y ou are not respectable. You have been locked up b e f ore for being drunk and disorderly. The prisoner sa id her husband was the officer of a ship, and she expected him home. Yesterday she went to Victoria Dock to meet him. The ship did not arrive. one. met with a femal e who stole the interior of a valuable brooch and a white handkerchief, and who invited ha to drink. strange woman ? Mr Partridge—R aw came you to be dri The prisoner --I don't know sir. I know it was wrong. Here is the rim of the brooch. The inside is gone. I had a shilling to pay the cab fare, and the driver drove me tc the station-house. Mr Partridge—You were drunk and noisy, and if you havo been robbed it is your own fault. Your conduct was not respectable, but very disorderly. I fine you 10s, and in default of payment, seven days' imprisonment. THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN THE TEMPLE GAR DENS.—Active preparations are being made in the gardens of the Inner and Middle Temple for the annual show of chrysanthemums, a di s pl ay wh i c h always com mands much attention, and whi c h is justly regarded as something marvellous in the heart of the metropolis. In the Inner Temple there is a v ery beautiful row of the choicest flowers extending along the whole length of Paper. buildings. They are of all imaginable colours and sizes, and the manner in which they are arranged shows them off to the greatest possible advantage. On the opposite side of the gardens, by Harcourt• buildings, there is another row, but they do not show so well as those on the eastern side on account of the building operations which are going on. But Mr Broome has reserved his finest specimens for w the northern side of the garden, al ong t h e whole extent o f the beautiful flowers have be en care f u l ly covere d i n . They are all well developed and in excellent order, so that it may fairly be expected that the display of the present year will be equal to any of those which have preceded it. In the Middle Temple gardens Mr Dale has been equally successful up to the present time, and he has raised some very splendid specimens, which will be ready for public inspection at the same time with those in the Inner Temple. The space which Mr Dale has at his command is not so large as that which Mr Broome has to work upon, but he has turned what he has to the best advan tage, and both the gardeners may congratulate them selves upon what will certainly be, unless the weather should prove thoroughly unpropitious, a highly satisfac tory show. CLOSING OF PUBLIC-HOUSES IN LIVERPOOL. — ADOPTION OF TIIE NEW ACT.—The new Act of .Parliament for closing public-houses between the hours of one and four in the morning was adopted yesterday by the Town Council of Liverpool, after a brief discussion. A memorial in Uivour of the adoption of the Act, and another from the Licensed Victuallers' Association asking that its adoption be deferred for six months, were read. Mr Clint, chairman of the Watch Committee, moved the adoption of the Act, which had, he said, been of great benefit to good order and morality in London. The motion was seconded by Mr J. Stitt, who said that upwards of 1,000 persons were convicted during the last six months of offences com mitted between the hours of one and four. Mr Bairstow (an hotelkeeper) said that the adoption of the Act would Inflict great hardships upon dock labourers and others; but Mr Robinson (a brewer) said that the keepers of "night houses" would alone bo injured, Letter from the Vice• President of the Confederate States. The following letter from the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, giving his views upon the peace move ment, was written in answer to a letter addresed to him by several of his fellow-citizens of Georgia Crawfordsville, Ga., Sept. 22. Gentlemen,—You will please excuse mo not answering your letter of the 16th instant sooner. I have been absent nearly a week on a visit to my brother at Sparata, who has been quite out of health for some time. Your letter I found here on my return home yesterday. The delay of my reply thus occasioned my zegret. Without further explanation or apology, allow me now to say to you that no person living can possibly feel a more ardent desire for en end to be put to this unnatural and merciless war upon honourable and just terms than I do. But I really do not BC3 that it is in my power or yours, or that of any Lumber of persons in our positiJn, to inaugurate any movement that will ev..n tend to aid in bringing abc.ut a result that we and so many mere desire. The movement by our leg slature at its hist session, at the swzgestion of the executive, on this eubject, was by autho rity properly constituted for such a purpose. That movement, in my judgment, was timely, judicious, and in the right direction. Nor has it been without results, The organisation of that party in the North to which you refer may justly be claimed as a part of the fruits of it. These, it is to be hoped, will be followed by others of a more marked character, if all in both sections who sincerely desire peace upon correct terms will give the movement thus inaugurated all the aid in their power. Tho resolutions of the Georgia Legislature, at its last session upon the subject of peace, in my judgment embodied and set forth very clearly those principles upon which alone there can be permanent peace between the different sections of this extensive, once happy and prosperous, but now disa tracted country. Easy aid perfect solutions to all present troubles, and those far more grievous ones which loom in prospect, and portentously threaten in the coming future, is nothing more than the simple recognition of the fundamental principle and truth upon which all American constitutional libel ty is founded, and upon the maintenance of which alone it can be preserved—that is, the sovereignty, the ultimate abso lute sovereignty of the States. This doctrine our Legis lature announce—to the people at the North and to the world. It is the only key note to peace—permanent, lasting peace—consistent with the security of the public liberty. The old Confederation was formed upon this principle. The old Union was afterwards formed upon this principle. No league can ever be formed or maintained between any State, North or South, securing public liberty, upon any other principle. The whole framework of American institutions, which in so short a time had won the admiration of the world, and to which we were indebted for such an unparalleled career of prosperity and happiness was formed upon this principle. All our present troubles sprung from a departure from this principle, from a violation of this essential law of our poli- tical organisation. In 1776 our ancestors, and the ancestors of those who are waging this unholy crusade against us, together proclaimed the great and eternal truth, for the maintenance of which they jointly pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honour,thatgovernments are instituted amongst men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed —and that whenever any form of government becomes de structive of those ends for which it was formed, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organising its powers in such a form as to them may seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. It is needless hero to state that by " people," and "governed," in this annunciation, is meant communities and bodies of men capable of organising and maintaining a government, not individual members of society. The con sent of the governed refers to the will of the mass of the community or State in its organised form, and expressed through the legitimate and properly constituted organs. It was upon this principle the colonists stood justified before the world in effecting their separation from the mother country. it was upon this principle that the original 13 co-equal and co-Sovereign States formed the Federal com pact of the old Union in 1787, It is upon the same principle that the present co-equal and co-sovereign State of our con federacy formed their new compact of union. The idea that the old Union, or any union between sove reign States, consistently with this fundamental truth, can be maintained by force, is preposterous. This war springs from an attempt to do this preposterous thing. Superior power may compel a union of some sort, but it would not be the union of the old constitution or of our new. The subjugation of the people of the South by the people of the North would necessarily involve the destruction of the constitution and the overthrow of their liberties as well as ours. The men or party at the North to whom you refer who favour peace, must be brought to a full realisation of this truth in all its bearings, before their efforts will result in much practical good. Any peace glowing out of a union of States established by force will 134 as ruinous to them as to us. The action of the Chicago convention, so far as it plat form of principle goes, presents, as I have said, on another occasion, a ray of light which, under Providence, may prove the dawn of the day to this long and cheerless night, the first ray of light I have seen from the North since the war began. This cheers the heart, and towards it I could almost ex claim, " Hail, holy light, offspring of heaven, first-born of the eternal co-eternal beam. May I express thee uu blamed, since God is light." Indeed, I could have quite so exclaimed, but for the sad reflection that whether it shall bring healing in its beams or be lost in a dark and ominous eclipse ere its good work be done, depends so much upon the action of others who may of regard it and view it as I do. So at best it is but a ray, a small and tremulous ray, enough only to gladden the heart and quicken the hope. The prominent and leading idea of that convention seems to have been a desire to reaoh a peaceful adjustment of our present difficulties and strife through the medium of a con vention of the States. They proposed to suspend hostilities to see what can be done, if anything, by negotiations of some sort. This is one step in the right direction. To such a convention of the States I have no objection, as a peaceful conference and interchange of views between equal and sovereign Powers, just as the convention of 1787 was called and assembled. The properly constituted authorities of Washington and Richmond, the duly authorised representatives of the two confederacies of States now at war with each other, might give their assent to such a proposition. GJod might re sult from it. It would be an appeal on both sides from the sword to reason and justice. All wars which do not result in the extinc' ion and extermination of one side or the other must bo ended sooner or later by some sort of negotiation. From the discussion or interchange of views in such a convention, the history as well as the true nature of our in stitutions, and the relation of the States toward each other and towards the Federal head, would doubtless be much better understood, generally, than they now are ; but I should faveur such a proposition only as a peace:al confer ence, as the convention;of 1787 was. I should be opposed to leaving the questions at issue to the absolute decision of such a body. Delegates might be clothed with powers to consult and agree, if they could, upon some plan of adjustment, to be submitted for subsequent ratification by the sovereign State whom it affected, before it should be obligatory or binding, and then binding only on such as should so ratify it. It becomes the people of the South, as well as the people of the North, to be quite as watchful and jealous of their rights as their common ancestors were. The maintenance of liberty in all ages, times, and coun- tries when and where it has existed, has required not only constant vigilance and jealousy, but it has often required the greatest privations, and sufferings, and sacrifices that people or States are ever subjected to. Through such an ordeal we are now passing. Through a like and even severer ordeal our ancestors passed, in their struggle for the principles which it has devolved upon us to defend and maintain. But great es our sufferings and sacrifices have been and are, to which you allude, they are as yet far short of the like sufferings and sacrifices which our fathers bore with patience, courage, and fortitude, in the crisis that tried men's soul's in their day. These are the virtues that sus tained them in their hour of need. Their illustrious and glorious example bids us not to under-estimate the priceless inheritance they achieved for us at such a cost of treasure and blood. Great as are the odds we are struggling against, they are not greater than those against which they successfully struggled. In point of reverses our condition is not to be compared with theirs. Should Mobile, Savannah, Charles ton, Augusta, Macon, Montgomery, and even Petersburg and Richmond fell, our condition would not then be worse or less hopeful than theirs was in the darkest hour that rested on their fortunss. _ _ With wisdom on the part of those who control our destiny .• _ _ in the cabinet and in the field, in husbanding and properly wielding our resources at their command, and in securing the hearts and affections of the people in the great cause of right and liberty for which we are struggling, we could suffer all these losses and calamities, and greater even, and still triumph in the end. At present, however, I do not see, as I stated in the outset, that you or I or any number of persons in our posi tion, can do anything toward inaugurating any new move went looking to a peaceful solution of the present strife. The war on our part is fairly and entirely defensive in its character. How long it will continue to be thus wickedly and mercilessly waged against us depends upon the people of the North. Georgia, our own State, to whom we owe allegiance, has with great unanimity proclaimed the principles upon which a just and permanent peace ought to be bought and ob tained. The Congress of the Confederate States has fel- lowed with an indorsement cf these principles. All you and I, and others in your position therefore can do on that line at this time is to sustain the movement already in augurated, and to the utmost of our ability to hold up those principles as the surest hope of restoring soundness to the public mind of the North, as the braz 311 serpent was held up for the healing of Israel in the wilderness. The chic! aid and encouragement we can give the peace party at the North is to keep before thew these great fundamental principles and truths, which alone will lead them and us to permanent and lasting peace, with posses sion and enjoyment of constitutional liberty. With these principles once recognised, the future would take care of itself, and there would be no more war so long as they should be adhered to. All questions of boundaries, confederacies, and Union or Unions, would naturally and easily adjust themselves, ac cording to the interest of parties and the exigencies of the times. Herein lies the true law of the balance of power and the harmony of States.—Yours respectfully. ALEXANDER IL STEPHENS. The Falls of Niagara, (From the Index.) Passing by a suspension bridge which connects Goat Island with the mainland, wo walked to the lowest corner of the isle, and stood at once upon the brink of the precipice down which thunders the American Fall, No sceno that I have ever witnessed overwhelmed me R ith such uncon • trolable wonder as that which I looked upon as I stood on the margin a the plunge of the mighty cataract. The height, the power and vo:ume of the falls exceeded my utmost ex pectations. I had been told that I should he disappointed; but if there be any who have been, I cannot conceive what their imagination could have anticipated. I own I expected more noise, but the state of the atmosphere affects that, and the roar of the falls (like that of Bottom and Earl Russell) will at one time be as paltry and insignificant as at another it will be grand and terrifying. I should like to have the power to give you some idea of the sublimity of the scene, but it is utterly useless to attempt a description of what is wholly indescribable. The tortuous surgings of the rapids, the sudden calmness at the brow of the cataract, the majestic sea-green curve in which the liquid mass glides over the edge of the precipice, the silver ringlets into which it is broken up soon after leaving the brink of the rock,the feathery mist in which it showers down into the cloud of spray that ever veils the last 50 feet of the Fall, and the infernal writhe and whiteness in which it reappears in the depths of the abyss, all these wondrous features of the Queen of Cataracts must be seen, watched, sat beside for hours and days, before the mind can grasp the magnificence of the scene. But we were as yet only in sight of the Ame rican Fall. A walk along the further side of Goat Island brought us in view of the Canadian Fall, and then I found that I had been spending my fullest admiration and asto nishment upon a mere thread of Niagara, the thousandth part of its volume and grandeur, for there was before me again the same glorious scene that I have so briefly sketched —only kt was a thousand times intensified. We ascended and took a view from every one of the numerous points from which tourists are expected to sur • vey the Falls, and paid all those preposterous sums which tourists are invariably doomed to give—for Niagara has its excursionists by thousands, and its ' look-outs,' 'summer.. houses," retreats," staircases,' 'perilous seats,' and such attractions for an excursion party ; but it is less cockneyfied, for all that, than many a plan that I have visited—less so than Chamouni and itighi, and such favourite resorts that do not draw half so many visitors as the Falls. Having done our duty as pure excursionists, and been bled accord•. ingly, we took a carriage and drove off to the Canadian side of the river, crossing by the famous suspension bridge which connects the British and American territories. It is an extraordinary triumph of engineering skill to have thrown across the yawning gulf such a mass of weighty metal as here spans the torrent. How it ever got there is to my mind a dark inexplicable mystery, of which 1 am not mathematician or engineer enough to see the solution; but there it is to testify, in conjunction with the tubular bridge of Montreal and the canals of the St. Lawrence, to the in genuity and enterprise of the people of Canada. The Ur idge is two miles below the Falls, so that the view thence is too distant to be effective; but the drive up to them along the Canadian cliff, past ' The Clifton House,' the great Canadian hotel, is, I think, the most beautiful road I have ever seen. It is from this side that you get in ono grand comprehensive landscape the whole length of the American and Canadian Falls, with the steep precipices of Goat Island between them, and the cliffs of the American bank further down the gorge, and above them the roofs, and spires, and gables of the town, peering out from amid the forest that forms the background of the picture. Table Rock is a lofty shelving promontory of limestone jutting out from the Canadian shore close upon the brink of the plunge of the great Horse-shoe Fall ; and there we sat, as all tourists do, and gazed in rapture at the marvels of nature unfolded around, above, beneath us. I cannot tell you what we saw ; you could not depicture it to yourself if I could. I will only say that that one view from Table Rock would repay any one a journey from the farthest corner of the world. All the landscapes I have ever seen— all the snow- pictures of the Alps—all the coast-scenery of the Mediterrarean—all the lochs and moors of the Scotch Highlands—sink into insignificance when compared with the incomparable grandeur of Niagara. It is not the Falls themselves alone that cause the magnificence of the scene; but the beauty of the landscape, of which they are the centre, adds a hundredfold to their intrinsic value. But it is useless to tell how I wondered at the majesty of the view from Table Rock ; you must go and stand there your self, and then you will be amazed, as I was, at the all-ab sorbing interest of the scene, and ponder as I did upon the marvellous force and volume of the waters that every second plunge down the heights before you, and wonder whence comes the inexhaustible supply, and whither it goes, and how many a long roll of countless summers has looked on the same unvaried scene; and so you will wish, perhaps, to put down on paper some little memento of what you saw and felt, and find, I dare say, as I do, that the attempt is futile. But a distant view of the Falls gives but a faint idea of their solemn grandeur. To comprehend them in their awe inspiring sublimity, you must descend to the base of the cliff, and walk in amongst the spray, and under the curve of their flight down the precipice, and see the terr:fic power of their waters and the impotence of man beside them : in fact, you must do as I did, make the expedition to the Cave of the Winds, and then you will have impressed upon your mind the detail of the more awful properties of Niagara, which a close acquaintance can alone reveal to you. The Cave lies underneath the American Fall ; the trip is decidedly a perilous one, but it is the thing, and so, to be fashionable, I did it. The party of adventurers consisted of eight, and a guide, a French Canadian. At a house by the foot of the Fall we were provided with a dress, or at least an apology for a costume, the very queerest, oddest looking, scantiest set of garments in which I have ever appeared in public. The suit consisted of a remark ably thin threadbare flannel shirt, a much thinner an I much more threadbare pair of fl in - ael drawers a pair of flannel socks or slippers, and a cord round the wait, the whole surmounted' by an oilskin skull cap. 1 never felt more like the maniac who persisted in confining his street toilette to hatband and strap', or realised more painfully the confusing cff-ct of the penetrating glances of half a dozen young ladies, than on the occasion when our little party in Incian filo threaded the gauntlet of the inqui sitive ones who had drawn up to see us enter the cave. But a bold face and buoyant spirits were necessary for the work that lay before us. After a few words of counsel from the guide about not being frightened, but keeping straight ahead, and energetic assurances that we should not be crowned—though we should be sure to fancy that would be the result, for every one, he said, thought so at first—we descended some steps that led right down into the spray of the Fall, and at the bottom came upon a path or narrow ledge that wound along the cliff inside the archway of the Fall. From the moment that we left the stairs, we got into a fine pelting rain that gradually increased in weight and volume till it bore down upon our skull caps like hail on a skylight. But the cave lay on the further side of the sheet of water, through which we had to get as best we could. How that was I cannot tell you. The guide led the way into the steam and turmoil, bending himself nearly double to keep beating the spray from his nostrils, and clinging on to the slimy rock, for the foothold was slippery and difficult, I believe I did the same, but I cannot say. The guido was immediately lost to our view; and all that I could hear amid the thunder of the cataract was an injunction to push on when it came to the worst, for the illogical reason that it was shorter to get beyond the sheet of water than to turn back. I cannot tell you what a terri fying scene it was—how the waters reared around us— how the stifling spray beat upon our faces so as to drive all the breath out of our bodies—how the wind, caused by the falling mass of water, blew about in a thousand blinding gusts (as if old 2G plus had untied every single sack, and let out the whole of his seminary for a general holiday), dashing the rain into our faces and chests, or driving it against our backs and legs, or both ways at once with equal fury-or what I did, or what I saw. I don't knew where, or why, or how I went. I only know that I went down to this watery hell and came up again uninjured, but very much out of breath and more frightened, half blinded, more than half deafened, and three-quarters drowned. The rest was comparatively simple—merely a scramble through the mist over slimy polished rocks, a swim across a little pool, and a climb to a chair fixed on a rugged crag, when I found myself out in front of the Fall. with a splendid view of it looking upwards before me, and, the greatest novelty of all, a circular rainbow all around me, at times too doubled. Five minutes' rest upon the crag, and we retraced our steps—for there was no other way back again to terra firma--and then in again amongst the rein and the din of waters, more panting for breath, more struggling N%i h the wanton gusts, more bewildering of the eye and ear, more clinging for bare life to the slimy rock, and clambering up the slippery staircase; and so we reached tho mole hos pitable regions of the open air, and again ran the gauntlet of the curious eyes that awaited our retina to daylight— less nervous, perhaps, about their gaze after what we had faced telow, but very much more de'gages and disrepu table. I don't know that 1 should care to make the expe dition again, though I met one rather stout Canadian who told me he went down regularly twice a week under the idea it would reduce his fat—but lam not by nature amphi- bious, and I consider the feat well worthy of the certificate with which the guide presents the visitors before they leave testifying to the fact that they have passed through the Cave of the Winds.' THE DIVORCE COURT.—Sir J. P. Wilde, Judge of the Divorce Court, will sit on Thursday for the purpose of hearing motions. There are as many as 91 criginal cases in the list, besides 21 standing over by conzent of the parties, SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. WORCESTER RACES—Tins DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) HURDLE RACE. Morocco _ Ross 2 Ten ran. SHIPPING-THIS DAY, LONDON, Nov. I.—Wind this day at noon—North- E3sterly ; moderato breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. KINSALE, Oct. 31.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—William, from Demerara for Liverpool. PLYAIOUTII, Oct. 31.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Oxford, from Rangoon for Bremen—General Havelock, from Bas• sein for Amsterdam. CARDIFF, O. 30.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Albert the Good, from Itio Janeiro. TRooN, Nov. I.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Nlargaret, from Matanzas. Orr PLYMOUTE, Oct. 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived— Scindia, from Calingapatam• CLYDE, Oct. 31,—Wind S.E. — Arrived—Sahti, from Calcutta. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GIIIVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Oct. 31—Jan Freesmln, from Petersburg— Niord, from Sundswall—Christina Maria, from Soderham Recovery, from Cronstsdt—Naiad, from Dantzic. Arrived, N v. I—Wheatsheaf, from Caen—Prospect, Vichi, and Albana—all from Cronstadt—Uda, from S oder ham—Dunsdale and Thomas Rowell, both from Danizic— Johnnes, from Rostock—Alice, from. Dunkirk—Thetis, from;Sundswall—Sarpon, from G , flo—Swiitsure, from Havre. FUNERAL OP MR LEECH.—It has been arranged that the funeral of Mr Leech shall take place on Friday next at Mensal-green, where the hearse will arrive at half past one o'clock. Mr Leech's heart was in that cemetery, where he buried his first child in 1819. There also his friends have been able to secure for him a grave the next but one to that of his friend and schoolfellow, Thackeray. It may be right to mention that none will be invited to the funeral b'it the members of his family and those who, like Dr Quin, Mr Hutchinson, Mr Bradbury, and Mr Evans, were more immediately connected with him, He had so large a circle of friends that it is impossible to invite all. COLONIAL BISHOPS ROUGHING IT.—We cannot resist the temptation of relating the following anecdote of the Apostolic Bishop of New Zealand, the scene of whose adventures lies here. He had persuaded the Bishop cf New castle to start with him from Sidney on a missionary cruise in his little yacht to New Caledonia, the Now Hebrides, the Loyalty, and other islands in his then extens:ve diocese. Like ourselves they put in at the Bay of Islands. The Bi shop of New Zealand wished to show his brother of New castle a little of the country, and for that purpose proposed to take him to a distant station on the other side of this very river. The ground was boggy, as wo had found it, and the Bishop of Newcastle had never been accustomed to rough it in such a country as this. Ho could ride his 50 mile a day in his own diocese ; but his hardy brother always walked, and besides there were no horses to be had here, Always neat and spruce in his dress, looking " as it he had just come out of a bandbox," and afraid like a cat to wet his feet, ho picked his way most carefully and delicately, unlike his brother bishop, who tramped on " through thick and through thin," till at last they came to the river side. The river was swollen with the heavy rain which had been pouring down in torrents for some days previously, and he of Newcastle looked awfully puzzled. wondering how they were to cross—neither bridge nor ford beirg visible in any direct tion. He was still further puzzled, when he saw the Bishop of New Zealand, without a word, deliberately taking off shoes, leggings, stockings, and, last of all, his breeches. In reply to his brother Bishop's " Whatever next," ho coolly collected his various articles of dress, and stepped into the river up to his apron, calling out as he did so " Now then, Newcastle, off with your breeks, and follow your leader I" There was no help for it, as there was no other means of crossing the river, and the good Bishop invariably refused to be carried across by any of his Maori suite, on the ground that it was not right to treat such noble fellows as beasts of burden.— Once a Week. How GIRLS WILL NOT BS EDUCATED.—Take a town case. In a large, old-fashioned, but growing town, there seems to be no such thing as a school appro priate to the wants of the small ehopkeeping and superior artizen class. * * Their houses are not well kept—the rooms are untidy and not even clean—the ways aro un punctual—the meals are badly cooked—the clothes aro badly got up ; and if there is a servant, there is endless turmoil with her. The mistress says the maid does not do her work; the maid finds the mistress unreasonable and harsh; and the master and the children fool that both the charges are true. There has been so much crying out, all over the country, for something which shall be to this order of society what our regulated and asAsted schools are to the labouring class, that many good citizens and sensible women bestir themselves to see what they can do among their neighbours. Of these, one lady has an experiment of her own. She fits up and opens a convenient house, in an easily accessible situation, settles in it a mistress of high qualifications, and a housekeeper who has risen through the ranks of domestic service to be fit for the present business. Under her, the girls are to learn household work in the best style,— cleaning, cooking, lay ing the table, and so on, while the proper school-learning is of a better quality than can be found anywhere else within reach. When the plans are got fairly to work, there will be a regular dinner provided for the smallest payment, for girls from a distance ; meantime, the lesson of laying the cloth, coo, goes on, for the sake of those who bring their dinners. This lesson is rather baulked, however, and the superiors are much vexed, by the sort of dinners disclosed, viz., stale pastry, bought with money given at home for the girls to spend as they like. This phenomenon hastens the plan for the good hot dinner at the school—the roast leg of mutton or sirloin with vegetables, the Irish stew, and other good things, to be cooked by the girls in turn, in view of the table to be kept in the future home of each. But the girls have no mind for the roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, or the stew, or anything else that sensible people like—they go on buying stale pastry on their way to school, and pay more for it than for the comfortable dinner at their command. In a little while diflleulty arises about the indus trial part of the schooling. Strange to say, the motheri do not like that their daughters should learn to wash china properly, to clean furniture, rub up silver, and spread a table; and even the fathers object to any time being given to the art of cookery. On the whole, the very superior school learning is graciously ac cepted, if not appreciated; but the industrial element is fetch The pawnbroker's daughter is absent on those days when it is her turn to sweep a room or make the bread ; the cabinetmaker's girls aro always miesing on ironing days ; the linendraper's girls cannot come any more unless they are excused from all but book, and map, and pen work ; and thus the scheme is brought to an end, the school is closed, and the husbands and children of these unhappy pupils will have to go through the wretched old experience of domestic discomfort and wrangling, because the wife and mother does not know how to keep house.—disc Mar• iineau in the anthill Magazine. _ _ ANECDOTES OF ABERNETHY. A foxhunter, somewhat stricken in years, consulted Abernethy. The man's digestion was not so good as it had been. He had lost his appetite; man delighted him not, nor woman either. "Sir," said Abernethy, " you drink a great deal." " Now," said the foxhunter, when relating the interview, " now, supposing I do drink a great deal, what the devil was that to him ?" A literary gentleman called upon him. He, too, had a disordered stomach. "Of course you have," said Abernethy, "a half-blind man could tell that by your nose." He used to have his wine of a mer chant whose name was Loyd. He one day called to pay for a pipe, and thrust a handful of papers containing fees into the wine merchant's hand. " Stop, stop, doctor," said Loyd. " There may be much more here than you have to pay I" " Never mind, Loyd, I can't stop. You have them as I had them." Ho was very careless of money. He would receive a hasty fee, place the money on the table, and forget all abo u t it, "L ead me not into temptation" is the holiest, because the humblest prayer. Some few of his pupils were led into temptation. The loss of money Was so considerable that the surgeon determined to who Non a o s e c v‘y e ,: r y t a a on i u n ange t n h : e ubde d d e iei l ln i e n lay q: d e b n etf t oo . r se h l ho l wi e s pupils,marked said, a h i I d s P e ° a t l r was e ia m g me your purses," The thieves wL re discovered, and dis missed. He was one day about to perform an operation— s painful one. As was his custom he took care to see him self that all the required instruments v., ere at hand, and in first-rate order. " I think everythiing is. all right," said one of the assistants, " No, sir, everything is not all right," replied Alr Abernethy. " a napkin to conceal those terLifyiug instruments. The man need nut be hor rified by the sight." Abernethy was eihred a baronetcy by the Earl of Liverpool. Ha announced the plo p sal to his family by saying, as they were about to sit down to dinner, "Lady Abernethy, permit me to hand you to your seat." li© afterwards explained that he had been offered the title, but, for cogent reasons, declined the honour. The memory of Mr Abernethy was singularly actiue and tenacious. A friend, of a poetical turn of mind, composed some verses complimentary of Mrs Aber nethy, which he recited after dinner on her natal day. Abernethy listened attentively, and immediately the reading terminated exclaimed, "Come, that is a good joke to attempt to pass those verses off as your own original composition. I know them by heart ;" and Abernethy at once repeated them without the mistake of a word. Tho "poet" was astounded, mystified, angry I The amused host explained, and offered to repeat verb.tinz any piece of about the same length which any ore in the company would recite,— Ececneric rei sonages, by Irdltant Russell, LL.D. 100 itcsok stook 20 dock 10 dool. gtock stock Stock than Sk 20 20i 1011] 1051 i